Example sentences of "be built on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas Belial Base had been built on the outer surface of a solid moon , Moloch Base was inside a hollow one ; a miracle of planetary engineering which , after five years , still had Bannen and his team groping in the dark for answers to questions they did n't even know how to formulate . |
| 2 | Originally it had been built on the usual pattern , a tiny square hallway , with doors to either side leading into the two ‘ front ’ rooms , and a steep enclosed stair up to the twin bedrooms under the pitch of the roof But someone , fairly recently , had done a job of conversion ; the two downstairs rooms were thrown into one , with the staircase half dividing them . |
| 3 | A low , curving wall faced with flint had been built on the seaward boundary behind whose shelter every spring a bright ribbon of daffodils strained and tossed in the March winds . |
| 4 | It had been built on the seaward side of a small cottage that had evidently existed before it . |
| 5 | Since Rome has been continuously inhabited ever since , and as Medieval , Renaissance and Modern cities have been built on the same site , very little is left of any of these fora except the excavated site and fragments of buildings . |
| 6 | On July 16 the Supreme Court ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to explain the nature of a concrete platform that had been built on the disputed site , and on July 22 declared that it would refuse to adjudicate on the issue until all construction activities had ceased . |
| 7 | Equations such as ( 7.5 ) are built on the seminal work of Bonifacio and Lugiato { 6 } in 1978 . |
| 8 | They are built on the Byzantine pattern , in small scale , and have painted fresco decoration . |
| 9 | Other churches in the area which have similar Byzantine characteristics also differ mainly from the Constantinople pattern by their ovoid domes , elongated and double curved pendentives , their Romanesque fenestration and arcading ; also these churches are built on the western style Latin cross plan . |
| 10 | It can be quite painful , for the insider is studying his own social navel , with the potential always present that he will recognize this to be only one of a number of arbitrary possibilities and perhaps also find that many practices are built on the flimsiest of moral precepts . |
| 11 | A new idea was put forward in the spring of 1970 — that a new church should be built on the cleared site and that the 1954 church should be altered to become , first a dual-purpose building and then , when the new church had been completed , a church hall . |
| 12 | A new bus garage would then be built on the cleared site and would have to be ready for use by the time the trams in Croydon were abandoned . |
| 13 | It was decided at an early stage that future designs could no longer be coach-built on separate custom-made chassis , as was the case with the now-deleted Bentley Continental and Rolls-Royce Corniche coupes ( which still exist as convertibles ) , but would have to be built on the regular production lines at Crewe alongside the conventional monocoque four-door saloon models . |
| 14 | A vast new Royal infirmary costing one hundred and forty million pounds is to be built on the Southern outskirts of the capital , to open in eight years time . |
| 15 | A water intake will be built on the Mediterranean coast near the settlement of Qatif , some 13 km north of the Sinai border . |
| 16 | The Co-op store would be built on the 8.2 acre site near the West Moor Nursing Home off Dixon 's Bank . |
| 17 | The new wards were to be built on the northern side of the workhouse grounds , and a sub-committee was appointed to keep an eye on progress . |
| 18 | A large new foodmarket was being built on the opposite corner , with the land around it open for parking . |
| 19 | Though stations were built on the main line west of Paddington after its opening in 1838 the initial suburban service was poor and the passenger receipts small . |
| 20 | The ideas of the phrenologists contained much sound common sense even though they were built on the false premise that bumps on the skull are a key to personality . |
| 21 | All these elaborations were built on the basic Hippocratic theory of the Four Humours . |
| 22 | The plot of each book is built on the physical fact of impersonation : the emotional content depends on character , as the Englishman in effect proves himself worthy to be a king in more than mere appearance . |
| 23 | It lies between the city of Hull and Withernsea and is built on the heavy clays of South Holderness . |
| 24 | The new factory was built on the far side of the property , leaving Barlaston surveying a fine sweep of parkland down to a river widened to look like a lake . |
| 25 | In Chile , British railway capital provided Valparaiso with a classical station , while Santiago 's Alameida Station was built on the broad Avenida Bernardo O'Higgins , linking the railway to independence heroes in a manner common throughout Latin America . |
| 26 | Much of Sussex 's early medieval wealth was built on the close relationship between farming life and industry ; although many villages had specialists in each there must have been many with dual occupations , men able to shift from one to the other as the season or demand dictated . |
| 27 | As the town became more prosperous in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries a new and greater university was built on the ruined foundations of the old . |
| 28 | However , being known for measurement does not necessarily help when tendering for consultancy work , but given that the reputation of most of our rivals was built on the interpretive reports prepared by companies such as ours , the transition should simply be one of perception . |
| 29 | The present church was built on the opposite side of the road in 1814 and was originally a very plain structure with a square tower at the west end . |
| 30 | The squalor remained through the troubles of the Civil Wars until a new prosperity was built on the growing export of corn in the later seventeenth century . |